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We all come from various backgrounds, but we’re all Americans who have a responsibility to stand with our president as he fights for the principles our founders left us – for our freedoms, our safety and strong borders.

Did you know that billions of dollars a year are spent on immigrants for welfare and social services by the American taxpayers?

In 1945, under the leadership of General Dwight Eisenhower and the Allied commanders, a treaty was signed after entering the war on two fronts in Europe and the Pacific.

Ronald Reagan: “I’m not worried so much about the Left Wing or the Right Wing; I want God to heal the whole bird. It is sick.” Years later this country is in worse condition!

2 Chronicles 7:14: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Are those who didn’t vote ignorantly complicit in the wickedness engulfing our Beloved U.S.A.?

Gentle reader, inasmuch as the old curmudgeon’s family had resided in Tidewater, Virginia for over a hundred and fifty years before crossing the mountains into the Tennessee Valley, he has always had a certain particular interest in the Old Dominion. Therefore he has followed closely the current political debacle involving the leaders of the state government.

When Dad passed away 33 years ago, Mother - who turned 68 on the following March - made it clear that she would live out the rest of her days on the farm that had been her home since she was pregnant with me in 1950.

For several years, Mother maintained her characteristic busy lifestyle.

Church-related duties, efforts to save the old Roane County Courthouse, baking bread, and grandmothering consumed her time and energy.

Only in America can you murder your child at birth or before, but go to jail for spanking them!

Andrew Cuomo ordered that the spire of the One World Trade Center be lit pink to celebrate the passage of a new law (passed on the anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision) that radically liberalizes abortion in New York State, in some cases allowing abortion up until the moment of birth, even permitting non-doctors to perform abortions – the most wicked and egregious assaults on humanity in America’s history.

As the state’s policy-making body for K-12 education, we make it a priority to regularly travel across Tennessee, listening and learning about what works and what remains challenging in providing an excellent education for all students.

During these visits, we often seek out areas of our state where we know great work is happening.